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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRevealed: the far-right, antisemitic men's club network spreading across US
A nationwide US network of dozens of far-right, men-only fraternal clubs has what members describe as literally hundreds of participants who include past and currently serving military personnel, lawyers, civil servants, and prominent antisemitic influencers, a Guardian investigation can reveal.
The Old Glory Club (OGC) which has at least 26 chapters in 20 US states and until now has drawn little attention exemplifies the alarming rise of organized racist political groups in the past few years but especially during the rise of Donald Trump and his return to the White House.
The OGC network has held conferences, meetups and other events. Key members like podcaster Pete Quinones use their platforms to push far-right ideas about Jewish people and immigrants. Other members have used their platforms to respond to political events, and to advocate measures including cancellation insurance for members whose extreme political views might impede their professional lives.
Harry Shukman, a researcher at UK anti-fascist non-profit Hope Not Hate, who last month published an exposé on the OGC-affiliated Basketweavers organization in the UK, told the Guardian: Groups such as the OGC are a new breed of extremist organisation which aims first to build an offline social network before taking over society.
He added, They seek to lower the bar to participating in the far right, and by doing so have proved attractive to a cohort of mostly male members, some of whom have never before undertaken any form of activism.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/05/far-right-mens-clubs-old-glory
When fascism comes to America, it will come toting a bible and wrapped in the American flag. And here it is.

sop
(15,034 posts)JanMichael
(25,650 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 5, 2025, 08:44 PM - Edit history (1)
Do they wear bowler hats?
BidenRocks
(1,805 posts)Union Buster bastards!
Shipwack
(2,759 posts)Sense of belonging, close friendships, reassurance that its not their fault, feedback about their superiority, etc
brush
(60,505 posts)Black people and other people of color. It's ironic that some of these POCs, Palestinian/Gazan rights advocates in America, voted for and help trump and his antisemitic cabal win the '24 election.
lets not trivialize the anti-Semitism which is often done. Well, they hate everybody . Sorry, as a victim of violent anti-Semitism in my lifetime multiple times as a young person, I aint interested in communal hatred excuses. Fuck these Nazis with a rusty harpoon.
JoseBalow
(7,843 posts)brush
(60,505 posts)have been catching hell here for centuries. It's nothing new and neither is antisemitism. I'm just saying don't overlook Black and POC racism because trump and his cabal suddenly realize they can use the ruse of accusing Harvard and other higher educational institutions of antisemitism to sue for monetary gains and concessions.
You must know trump is anti-everybody but rich whites and anybody who helps keep rethugs in power. Even in Gaza he's just backing warmonger Netanyahu because he thinks it get him votes when all he really wants is to develop Gaza as beach front properties.
PCIntern
(27,455 posts)that when a horrifying racist incident against blacks occurs, you dont see a clause in a sentence that resembles, the group that perpetrated this also hates Jews. It stands as a violent incident based on the targeting of a specific group. Whenever Jews are attacked, there is a paragraph of explanation the this particular group or faction hates all minorities, somehow nearly-trivializing the fact that a Jewish victim or victims are involved because, well, because it COULDA BEEN anyone else from a number of minorities. It just happened to be Jews this time and we need to move on.
Aint moving on no more
.not after October 7th.
brush
(60,505 posts)men, including being antisemitic and now using alleged antisemitism by higher educational institutions to sue for money and other concessions.
Just a straight-forward explanation, no Oct. 7 references pls without an acknowledgement of the extreme and overt continuing over retaliation/killing, starvation, bomb strikes and ethnic cleansing by warmonger Netanyahu still on-going in Gaza. Notices come daily of more killings by IDF forces who lure starving Gazans for food deliveries only to gun them down.
That's war crimes and all the world is watching. Shame.
So youre going to tell me what Im allowed to say and/or reference? I dont think so.
You say its all war crimes, I say that these factions are gonna think more than twice about mutilating and killing Jews, something which never seems to concern your ilk too much.
DU rules expressly forbid my continuing to engage with you in the manner in which I would prefer.
brush
(60,505 posts)Shame. Again, the world is watching. Why aren't you protesting warmonger Netanyahu's actions as well?
regnaD kciN
(27,161 posts)czarjak
(12,999 posts)Conscription. Learn to live with it, Boys!
nycbos
(6,542 posts)Unlike leftwing antisemitism it is direct and honest unlike the gaslighting bs you get from the left.
PCIntern
(27,455 posts)Recommended
flvegan
(65,119 posts)I don't know how to break it to them...
ancianita
(40,908 posts)Western morality, along with concepts of the visible and invisible, psychology, law and justice came from Judaism. In the banality of their evil, only the godless global oligarchs would want to foist on humanity the chaos of an AI driven mafia system of governments and economies.
So call OGC the manboys' club, and then make sure to socially keep them confined to their playpen.
Jilly_in_VA
(12,338 posts)Judaism is a whole lot older than Christianity, m'dear.
Godot51
(523 posts)Iamscrewed
(486 posts)
TomSlick
(12,550 posts)The Klan no longer needs robes and hoods.
MLWR
(384 posts)TomSlick
(12,550 posts)I am convinced the ICE Gestapo wear masks and no uniforms so we can tell if they are real ICE agents or simply thugs (or worse.)
Demovictory9
(36,582 posts)Orrex
(65,479 posts)RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
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SARose
(1,659 posts)White privilege at its finest.
These people have never wanted for anything. They have never had to decide whether to put gas in the car or buy diapers.
Theyve never experienced too much month and not enough money.
Theyve only known prosperity and parents who worked their buns off to give them everything they wanted.
Lets see how they feel once the BBB kicks in. Because they believe whole heartedly that none of that will affect them.
FAFO